PASADENA, CALIF. —It's been 20 seasons of ABC's The Bachelor and 11 seasons of The Bachelorette, but not one leading man or lady has yet to be African-American.

This summer, that may change.

Paul Lee, ABC Entertainment Group President, said at the Television Critics Association Saturday that the network is "doing a whole lot of tweaks" to the franchise.

"I'd be very surprised if the [Bachelorette] in the summer isn't diverse," Lee told reporters following the network's executive session.

Normally, the picking process for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise originates with what Lee called "The Farm Team" a.k.a the pool of contestants that producers have used since the show's inception in 2009. For example, season 20 Bachelor Ben Higgins was a finalist on last season's The Bachelorette with Kaitlyn Bristowe.

But Lee said he thinks "the tweaks that [producer] Mike Fleiss is putting in place will get us where we want to go."

But only one season of The Bachelor had a non-white person as the lead. American-born Venezuelan Juan Pablo, from Season 18 of the show, was considered a PR "disaster" after he made a slew of controversial statements including how there shouldn't be a gay Bachelor and tweeting an offense comment about mentally disabled people.

Post-Pablo, people have continued to point out the franchise's lack of diversity, especially the absence of black contestants.

Question: how come the show Bachelor and Bachlorette never has a black person? Single black people looking for love exist.

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